Subject: Re: Cross-dressers
From: shaevel@shaevel.austin.ibm.com (/100000)
Date: 1991-01-27, 20:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: shaevel@shaevel.austin.ibm.com

In article <1991Jan24.182943.25508@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:

> > For some reason I'm really curious about why Dennis/Denise
> > finds women's clothes "relaxing" considering that the women
> > I know all feel that standard feminine garb is the opposite of
> > relaxing.   
> > [...interesting theories deleted...]

You're theories are quite good, but they seem to be taking the word
"relaxing" a bit too literally for me.  I won't claim to have a lot of
experience in this area, but a friend of mine (who experimented with
this to some degree some time ago) says that, for him, it is a case of
feeling a strong "feminine component" to his personality.  That is,
there is a part of him that "feels like a woman", and, correspondingly,
desires to behave more like one.  I should point out that the man is
bi-sexual, but *far* more "straight" than "gay", and is by no means
"swishy" or stereotypical.

If Denise is like my friend, then "relaxed" just means that the tension
between feeling feminine and having to act masculine (including attire)
is releaved when he can put on the dress and release those feelings.  He
may very well "put his panties on one leg at a time" and remain
heterosexually oriented.  Most cross-dressers are.

By the way, I find the slash form of her name (Dennis/Denise) odd.  If
she wants to be thought of as a woman, she should be addressed as such
and called by her name.  It was only for that one mission that she chose
to "pose" as Dennis.  
Just MHO, but a point of sensitivity for any who may meet transvestites
(or transexuals)....

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Jeff Shaevel                                shaevel@shaevel.austin.ibm.com
"...and it *was* love, even if it was only for a few hours." -- R. Chesley